...to show the folly of idolatry. According to Keil, these three pieces were composed in Egypt towards the end of the third or the beginning of the second century before Christ. IX. THE PRAYER or MANASSKS. 21. A genuine prayer of Manasseh, king of Judah, existed...

...Rhoeteum and Gergis in 188 BC non tarn ob recentia ulla merita quam originis memoria (Livy 38. 39. 10). By the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC the Romans are recognized as Aeneadae in the eyes of the world. In Rome Troy has conquered her ancient...

...plague may bo followed into remote antiquity, and, with a certain measure of certainty, even as far as the end of the third or the beginning of the second century of the pre-Christian era. In the 44th book of the ' Collectanea ' of Oribasius,1 discovered by Cardinal...

...AïveaSâi/ rayos /«yac. non tarn ob receiitia ulla mérita quam originis memoria (Livy 38. 30. 10). By the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC the Romans are recognized as Aeneadae in the eyes of the world. In Rome Troy has conquered her ancient...

...AtveaSor rayos /ucyas.' non tarn, ob recentia ulla merita quam originis memoria (Livy 38. 39. 10). By the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC the Romans are recognized as Aeneadae in the eyes of the world. In Rome Troy has conquered her ancient...

...perceive in Ecclesiastes, the composition of which our author puts in agreement with most critics towards the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC The book was received as canonical very late, about 90 AD, and our author is perhaps right when...

...ancient Metropolis of Hestiaeotis. The burial was made about 158 BC ; the objects may be dated about the end of the third or the beginning of the second century. They include a silver alabastron with two main zones of decoration in relief, — the upper a dance...

...Ptolemaic age acquired in Luxor in January, 1906. This was probably found in Thebes and belongs to the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC, a period not otherwise represented by an Aramaic papyrus. Its interest lies mainly in its proper...

...ancient Metropolis of Hestiaeotis. The burial was made about 158 BC: the objects may be dated about the end of the third or the beginning of the second century. They include a silver alabastron with two main zones of decoration in relief, — the upper a dance...

...the first historical account of the plague relates to an epidemic affecting Libya, Egypt, and Syria, at the end of the third or the beginning of the second century before Christ. Pandemies occurred in the sixth century of our era ; the fourteenth, when, under the...